Why no nap?

I promise to post pictures very soon.

We have had another busy week. I was one of the few people who could actually work at my job last week so I was super stressed and busy holding down the fort for many others. I am glad the office is back up and running. In the meantime I had an impromptu dinner party and playgroup.

Angela offered me a ticket to the game this weekend and I had a blast. I hadn't been in many many years and definitely didn't have great seats the past few times I went. I felt like I was back as a band date at the 30 yard line. Rusty happened to be at the game because his cadets were doing the march in and the band performed at half time.

Yesterday Reese and I attended a church picnic with our Sunday school class. It was nice to see alot of my friends from the other campus. This is my 3rd picnic to go to solo- maybe one of these days Rusty can come and help me chase Reese all over the park!

Reese is really starting to act like a 2 year old. The tantrums are starting to really come out. He has not taken a real nap in 2 days so its been fun times around here. Exhausting! We had a great morning with a trip to the park and MOPS but a cranky afternoon. Poor little guy was scaling his crib at 6:45 tonight because he was so tired!

My friend Stephanie , her husband, and their 6 month old are coming for the next 3 days. Perfect timing since Rusty is gone all week to Virgina.

90210 and busy days

I have been crazy busy with extracurricular activities and have really fallen behind on posting new pictures and blogging. Everything seemed to get busy with the kick off of the school year(which is funny since none of us are in school). I started in a local MOPS group this week to add to the fun. Reese started his new Kindermusik class and loved it. We will go at 9 on Thurs so he will show up 30-40 min late to school on Thurs. Funny thing is this puts him at school just in time to straight to MDO music time. Double music time on Thurs for him.

Reese was very sick last weekend. but still took a day trip to Houston. Reese and I went down for a gymnastics 3rd birthday party and ended up getting to spend some time with my sister and her family as well.

Reese is doing well and didn't even make a peep amongst the hurricane winds last night.We have had a lot of strong wind but we are very lucky. The local Starbucks is even open- how silly is that. I had my bathtub full of water and had things unplugged and a few things moved up off the ground but I am of the camp that its better safe than sorry. I can still remember the sound of Kelley's bedroom window breaking in hurricane Alicia. I think Rusty finds it a bit amusing how I handle the storms vs him. It's sort of funny that he is home actually. Since he isn't attached to a unit he doesn't get called up for storm duty. This soldier is taking an afternoon nap

We still have power so I took the opportunity during his nap today to watch the new 90210. We don't have the CW on our satellite (I have called many times to complain) so I have to watch it on line. I thought it was pretty good. Between it,The Hills and my new found show Million Dollar Listing on Bravo, I think I should move to California. I would need many millions of course to buy a tiny house, but I could get used to the beach and sun year round. Life without hurricanes would be nice as well- but then there are the earthquakes to think of.

I was surprised by the new 90210. I watched every episode for 10 years of the old one. It is a bit nostalgic to me because my life when it started and my life now is so very different. Better now- just different. More responsibilities for sure. My biggest when it started was probably if some boy liked me and if I was going to get to hang out with my friends on the weekend. Its funny how you think everything is so tragic when you are a teenager and looking back its so silly. This is an issue I face alot when I spend too much time up at the sorority house. When Rusty was deployed and I was up there I sometimes wanted to say to the women when they were complaining "Send your husband off to war and then we will talk about a real problem". You all know I am too nice for that and only see the good in everyone but sometimes it would have been nice.

I thought Shannen D(Brenda) gave me the creeps and was very awkward when she and Jennie G(Kelly) try to play nice. Its so clear they don't like each other. I have been wanting to get Tori Spellings book where she talks about their fall out. Here is what I think- if 2 of them said Shannen was horrible- does she have a chance to win that fight. I do like how they did use Andrea's daughter and Kelly's sister on the show. It makes it tie back to the old one a bit more.

The show made me a little nervous for the life Reese will have in high school. I was so naive and never even knew where to find trouble. I used to think I wanted a girl, but then I think of the awkward teenage years and I think of how silly I was. Ang and I were just talking the other day about how we were crazy emotional and cried over everything- blame the hormones.

Guest bed

After 8+ years of marriage there are very few things that Rusty and I do not see eye to eye on. One of the areas that we never agree on is the guest bed. We have 2 guest bedrooms- each one with a full size bed and each with a desk. Rusty is constantly wanting me to take the bed out of his room so he has more space. My thoughts are that I gave up my huge beautiful desk (where I will add that I do earn a living unlike his desk where he looks at fishing web sites) to have a small desk and keep a guest bed once the nursery was made. Not to mention that in another few years one of the guest beds will become Reese's bed which leaves us with only 1 guest bed. No reason to get rid of one to buy one in a few years.

All of this to say that the guest beds are used alot. Its especially nice when we have guests during the week to utilize the bed in his room so that I don't wake up a guest at 6:30 am when I start working.

Bryan lived with us for 3 months this summer and stayed entirely in Rusty's guest room. Since he moved out on Aug 15 we have had the following house guests

• Bryan
• Marie(3 nights)
• Brittany (2 nights)
• My Dad
• Brook, Tracy,Robyn and Allyson
• Ryan

I think you see my point!

I meant to write this post yesterday and had it on my mind and then today I find out from Stacy that Rusty was talking about getting rid of the guest bed last night at bible study- ha! He wont be winning this one! As you can see we have plenty of space so come and visit

Since this is the biggest argument we have in our marriage, I think we are doing pretty well!